The fifth post in my PowerShell Beginner series, “Daily Tasks, The PowerShell Way“. Use PowerShell’s Get-ComputerInfo to get the same information as you would from the msinfo32 System Summary. Replace multiple WMI queries with one cmdlet.

A Hyper-V lab for your PowerShell sandbox

When learning and playing with new technology like PowerShell, a lab environment is extremely beneficial. Some of the benefits are:

A lab environment can be torn down and and rebuilt as needed.

Components can be added to or removed from a lab as needed.

Actions that are considered risky to perform in a production environment can be performed safely in a contained lab.

Windows 10 Pro, Enterprise, and Education (as well as Windows 8 Pro and Enterprise) come with the same Hyper-V technology that runs in the datacenter, just waiting to be enabled. Here is how to get it installed and configured using PowerShell.